The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians
ISBN: 9781683363828 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A window into the Jewish understanding of God throughout history and today--written especially for Christians. In Jewish Scripture--Christianity's foundation--God's presence is everywhere: in nature, in history and in the range of human experience. Yet the Torah, Maimonides and 4,000 years of Jewish tradition all agree on one thing: that God is beyond any form of human comprehension. How, then can Judaism be so crowded with descriptions and images of God? And what can they mean to the ways Christians understand their own faith? In this special book, Rabbi Neil Gillman... A window into the Jewish understanding of God throughout history and today--written especially for Christians. In Jewish Scripture--Ch... |
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120,50 zł |
All These Vows--Kol Nidre
ISBN: 9781681629759 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year--what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal. Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributors--men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and poets, spanning three continents and all major Jewish denominations--examine Kol Nidre's theology, usage, and deeply personal impact. They trace the actual history of the prayer and attempts through the ages to emend it, downplay it and even do away with it--all in vain. They explore why Kol Nidre remains an annual... The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year--what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal. Throu... |
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64,53 zł |
Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding
ISBN: 9781349383986 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the traditional Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization. He provides a fresh perspective on Biblical and Rabbinic texts, offering new ways of thinking about other faiths. In the majority of volume, he develops the categories of theology of religions for Jewish text and arranges the texts according classification widely used in interfaith work: inclusivist, exclusivist, universalist, and pluralist. Judaism and Other Religions is essential for a Jewish theological understanding of the various issues in encounters...
With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the traditional Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization. He provide...
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311,26 zł |
The Heart of Torah, Gift Set: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion
ISBN: 9780827613058 / Angielski / Pudełko z zestawem (boxed set) / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays - two for each weekly portion -open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds to ponder fundamental questions about God, human nature, and what it means to be a religious person in the modern world.
In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays - two for each weekly portion -open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held mines Talmu...
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387,45 zł |
Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Volume I
ISBN: 9780198718413 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a comprehensive set of core references to '1 Enoch'. It shows that the rich afterlives of Enochic texts and traditions can be studied more thoroughly by scholars of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity as well as by scholars of late antique and medieval religions.
This volume provides a comprehensive set of core references to '1 Enoch'. It shows that the rich afterlives of Enochic texts and traditions can be stu...
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781,79 zł |
The Heart of Torah, Volume 1: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Genesis and Exodusvolume 1
ISBN: 9780827612716 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays - two for each weekly portion -open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds to ponder fundamental questions about God, human nature, and what it means to be a religious person in the modern world.
In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays - two for each weekly portion -open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held mines Talmu...
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107,42 zł |
Digging Through History: Archaeology and Religion from Atlantis to the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781442208834 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history--including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological site, showing what we can learn about past religious life and religious faith through the artifacts found there, as well as what has given each site such strong "staying power" over time. Richard Freund and the research in Digging through History are featured in the...
Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human hi...
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159,08 zł |
The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users
ISBN: 9780190255022 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Messianism is one of the great themes in intellectual history. But because it has done so much important ideological work for the people who have written about it, the historical roots of the discourse have been obscured from view. What did it mean to talk about "messiahs" in the ancient world, before the idea of messianism became a philosophical juggernaut, dictating the terms for all subsequent discussion of the topic? In this book, Matthew V. Novenson offers a revisionist account of messianism in antiquity. He shows that, for the ancient Jews and Christians who used the term, a messiah was...
Messianism is one of the great themes in intellectual history. But because it has done so much important ideological work for the people who have writ...
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426,26 zł |
Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
ISBN: 9780812249149 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality. In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law,... The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in a... |
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337,50 zł |
The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel
ISBN: 9780691174624 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The Beginning of Politics mines the story of Israel's first two kings to unearth a natural history of power, providing a forceful new... New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is universally ... |
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132,56 zł |
Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought
ISBN: 9781618115690 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality in the days of the Messiah? This work explores reactions to the seductive promises of apocalyptic teachings, tracing their fluctuations between intellect and imagination. The volume extensively surveys the tension between naturalistic and apocalyptic approaches to the history of the messianic idea so fundamental to the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages and reveals the scope and challenges of medieval thought.
How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality...
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413,54 zł |
Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
ISBN: 9781501707629 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewaltigung or "coming to terms with the...
In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particu...
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146,03 zł |
Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law
ISBN: 9780691152110 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question-and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingThough typically translated as "Jewish law," the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has rarely wielded the political power to
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question-and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingThough typ...
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Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
ISBN: 9781501707612 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewaltigung or "coming to terms with the...
In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particu...
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Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics
ISBN: 9781138230460 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores some of the key components of, and connections between, religious and philosophical treatment of ethical notions and problems and the positions of their historical precedents and successors. This allows for a better understanding of Jewish ethics as a distinctive position, the key influences upon it and major developments within it, and its contribution to subsequent developments and debates (metaphysical, historical, methodological, and socio-political). This book explores some of the key components of, and connections between, religious and philosophical treatment of ethical notions and problems an... |
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654,86 zł |
Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas
ISBN: 9783319578668 / Angielski / Twarda / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth ...
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389,09 zł |
Female Rabbis, Pastors, and Ministers: Gendered Pathways Toward Leadership Roles in Jewish and Other Religious Traditions
ISBN: 9783110520996 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do female rabbis, ministers, and women in other religious leadership roles transform their religious traditions, the very role of religion modern society, and the way women understand themselves? This volume convenes leading scholars and practitioners from various countries and traditions to discuss these questions at the intersection of gender studies, theology, and religious studies. Historical and current developments within Judaism form the starting point for a debate touching on questions fundamental to modern societies. How do religious institutions, ideas, and practices become...
How do female rabbis, ministers, and women in other religious leadership roles transform their religious traditions, the very role of religion modern ...
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434,69 zł |
Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: 9780198828167 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beiser's intellectual biography comprehensively and accessibly maps out Herman Cohen's intellectual development over seven decades. Maintaining that most interpretations have failed to appreciate the philosophical depth and sophistication of Cohen's Judaism, Beiser argues that his religion was in fact consistent with his radical rationalism.
Beiser's intellectual biography comprehensively and accessibly maps out Herman Cohen's intellectual development over seven decades. Maintaining that m...
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The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics
ISBN: 9783110553949 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense. This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and politi... |
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86,76 zł |
Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe
ISBN: 9780812250091 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," was composed and how it extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.
In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of...
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337,50 zł |